‘Shariah Law’ a Disaster for the Muslim Majority Countries
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Kacem El Ghazzali, writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council, wrote in an article […]
Why Some Hindus Are Angry About Reza Aslan CNN Show; Believer
Source: Huffinton Post In the first episode, Aslan eats cooked human tissue with members of a fringe Hindu sect. By Antonia Blumberg, Reporter, The Huffington Post A number of Hindu leaders and […]
Islam: Restoring Women’s Rights
November 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) In this ground breaking address, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, expounds how, more than a millennium before the secular world, Islam first definitively established and safeguarded the rights of women 1400 years ago, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the different […]
AUTOMATED WORKFORCE: Should robots be taxed for stealing jobs?
By Celia Luterbacher MAR 7, 2017 – It’s not yet clear whether, with the rise of artificial intelligence, workforce automation will lead to an overall rise or drop in human job creation. If death and taxes are the only two things that a person can count on, should the latter […]
Europe’s Muslims
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif If polls are to be trusted — especially after missing their target in the US presidential elections and the Brexit vote last year — the party of the most controversial politician in the Netherlands is projected to win most seats in the […]
In a Man’s World, Gilgit’s First Female Judge Continues to Break Stereotypes
AMAL HASHIM Whatever conservative conceptions you had of the province of Gilgit Baltistan should be removed by now because the region has managed to have its first female judge since 2006. And she is definitely someone you do not want to cross. Her court is one of the strictest […]
Not one, not two, but what?
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday told a parliamentary committee that the US had warned that annexing the West Bank would spark an “immediate crisis” with the US administration. The Israeli minister made his statements before leaving for the US for talks with […]
WikiLeaks CIA files: The 6 biggest spying secrets revealed by the release of ‘Vault 7’
Julian Assange has claimed the documents are the biggest intelligence release ever Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin WikiLeaks has released a huge set of files that it calls “Year Zero”and which mark the biggest exposure of CIA spying secrets ever. The massive set of documents – over 8,000 pages in all – include […]
Donald Trump’s Muslim ban is nothing compared to Theresa May’s ‘Christian’ approach to immigration
May is hardly the first avowedly Christian politician who would have made Jesus ruin his cute trick with the loaves and fish by puking over the lot of them Matthew Norman @IndyVoices When starting a column such as this, the sense of inadequacy is even more overwhelming than usual. The […]
9/11 : Your first and second thoughts?
After 9/11 it was sort of my ‘hobby’ to ask everyone of my friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances: “What was your first and second thought at the moment you saw the collaps of the Twin Towers” ? (we were not even told at the time that there was a ‘Tower […]
Today is International Women’s Day and We have the Most Extensive Coverage on Women Rights
Epigraph: But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Morocco: The king’s dilemma
MARKAZ Morocco: The king’s dilemma Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs Thursday, March 2, 2017 In his 1968 book, “Political Order in Changing Societies,” Samuel Huntington coined the term […]
The Bear Awakens: Russia’s Role in an Era of Uncertainty
PAST EVENT This item has: Video Sunday, Feb 26, 2017 The Brookings Doha Center (BDC) hosted a panel discussion on February 26, 2017, which explored the motives fueling Russia’s foreign policy, especially after the approval of Russia’s new Foreign Policy Concept. The panel included Andrey Kortunov, director-general of the Russian […]
Jordan’s troubles in its own backyard
Beverley Milton-Edwards Wednesday, February 22, 2017 MARKAZ King Abdullah II of Jordan has had every reason to be pleased with himself lately. Following the January inauguration of President Donald Trump, […]
Yes, the Nike Pro Hijab Has Landed
BY PHILIPPA MORGAN Nike+ Run Club Coach Manal Rostom for Nike Pro Hijab. Courtesy of Nike Following its successful “What Will They Say About You Campaign” and Nike+ Training Club […]
WikiLeaks outs CIA for turning smartphones, TVs into spy cameras and audio bugs
By S.A. Miller – The Washington Times – Updated: 12:25 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 WikiLeaks published thousands of purported CIA documents Tuesday that claim to show intimate […]
Vaughan Ahmadiyya woman at conference
Source: Vaughan Citizen By Tim Kelly What Naheed Khokhar really wants you to know is “Muslims are normal people like everybody else.” “Come spend a day with me and I’ll […]
The astonishing focus of namibias nomads
Source: BBC By David Robson 7 March 2017 Nestled in a grassy valley of north-eastern Namibia, Opuwo may seem like a crumbling relic of colonial history. With a population of […]
The fact the sky is dark reveals a lot about the Universe
Source: BBC It may seem utterly obvious that the sky is dark, but in fact it seems to give rise to a peculiar paradox about the cosmos Science writer and […]
Why Muslim Americans Should Stand With the Transgender Community
Source: Motto By Amara Majeed March 6, 2017 And all other groups whose civil rights are under attack As a Muslim American, I know what it’s like to have my […]